Fill This Cup by The Dailys (Ellie Holcomb and Jillian Edwards)

Gary Ware

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December 9, 2020

I’ve featured a lot of music by Ellie Holcomb. She’s prolific and varied, singing solo, singing with husband Drew, singing with husband Drew’s band The Neighbors, featuring on heaps of collaborations with other musicians.
Here she features as part of the duo The Dailys with Jillian Edwards.
Fill This Cup features the lyrical thoughtfulness and positivity I like in Holcomb’s music, now with added vocal harmony work.
Win.

This is a lyric video.

Waltz across the universe
Beauty more than I deserve
It’s right here
Breathe it in
I’ve been missing all of this
Let the laughter sound again
Let the light come rushing in
Catch the sun, raise it up
Come and fill this empty cup

Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending – Christmas Songs 2020 Day 9

Gary Ware

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December 9, 2020

Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending is another Charles Wesley set of lyrics that does not seem to have returned to great prominence among the Advent rediscovering movement. The themes of the second coming, judgement, and the recognition of Jesus’ crucified form may not be attractive to modern interpreters. I don’t know.

Here’s Jamie Brown and Falls Church Anglican providing a rendition to the tune HElMSLEY.

The lyrics:
1
Lo, he comes, with clouds descending,
once for our salvation slain;
thousand thousand saints attending
swell the triumph of his train:
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Christ the Lord returns to reign.
2
Ev’ry eye shall now behold him
Robed in glorious majesty;
Those who ridiculed and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, Deeply wailing, Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.
3
Those dear tokens of his passion
still his dazzling body bears,
cause of endless exultation
to his ransomed worshipers;
with what rapture, with what rapture, with what rapture
gaze we on those glorious scars!
4
Yea, amen! let all adore thee,
high on thine eternal throne;
Savior, take the power and glory,
claim the kingdom as thine own:
O come quickly! O come quickly! O come quickly!
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.

Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming – Christmas Songs 2020 Day 8

Gary Ware

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December 8, 2020

Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming may sound esoteric, which may be more of an indication that poetic imagery and broader understanding of Scriptural allusion are less commonly understood.

Linda Ronstadt provides an ethereal rendition. It only has the first two verses, I’m okay with verse two and its reference to Isaiah being included, though I’m sad not to hear reference to ‘true man and very God, from sin and death he saves us’.

The lyrics:
1
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming
From tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse’s lineage coming
As men of old have sung.
It came, a flower bright,
Amid the cold of winter
When half-gone was the night.
2
Isaiah ’twas foretold it,
The Rose I have in mind:
With Mary we behold it,
The virgin mother kind.
To show God’s love aright
She bore to men a Savior
When half-gone was the night.
3
This Flower, whose fragrance tender
With sweetness fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendor
The darkness everywhere.
True man, yet very God,
From sin and death He saves us
And lightens every load

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